Augustine



Aug. 19,1930. Y w. Q. AUGusTlNE I. PROCESS OF AND MEANS FOR MAKING MATCHES Filed Aug, 2, 1929 MMPI?.

05d... ruzFQmmm mi Patented Aug. 19, 1930 snr WALTER'O. AUCUSTINE, orv RAHWAY, Nnwtnnsnn- ASSIGNORYTO THE `DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,t A CORPORATION or ILLINOIS PROCESS or AND MEANSron-MAKINGMATCEES' Appncation inea August 2, 1929. Serin Nofssaosa." p

This invention vrelates to a process of and means for making matches having splints of permeable combustible material; its objectf` -row by row, andthereby rigidly held/in 4*spaced parallel relation. f i,

' designates a vsuitably-located sprayer being to provide for the economical and ei"- licient treatment of the splints with a mate-' rial, such as ammonium phosphate, which is eective to limit the flame to a relatively small portion of the splint when a match is ignited,

and which material is also effective to prevent the glowing of the burnt or charred part of the splint when the flame is extinguished.

The invention is especially designed forA use 1n connection with a match making maV chine of the class wherein theV splints are inserted endwise, row by row, in an endless ca'rrier and thereby rigidly held in spaced paral` lel relation .and transported through the@ match making path, including wax (as para-f-Y fin) and head compositionapplying mecha# nism.

Incarrying out the invention in the preferred way the projecting match splints, supportedin spaced parallel relation by the car-T rier, are impregnated with a fire-resisting sO- klution, such as ammonium phosphate of suiii-- cient concentration to impart the requisite fire-resisting characteristic toy the'isplints. The concentrated impregnating material, in the free end portions of the splints, to an extent substantially corresponding with theV desired inflammable area of the splints, is reduced by a solvent to a conditionwhich permits the burning of the splints, when dried,

yet prevents their `glowing when thev flame is eXtinguished.

The splints thus treatedk travel through a suitable drying zone, and theirl free impreg-'- nated end portions, when dry, are'dipped 'to' asuitable depth into molten wax, as paraffin.

The splints 'are then exposed to the. atmos i phereior a brief interval to allow the wax to set, whereupon the free extremities of the` splints are tipped with ignitable composition or compositions to ,form the match he'ad's.- The matches thus produced are conveyed through a suitable drying Space, whence they are discharged from the carrier and packed.

Figures 1 'and 2 of the drawings f, are illustrative diagrams of parts of a match mak-p` ing machine designed to carry out my herein'-Vv before described proce-ss.

`*the solution,

,designates ajportion'of an endless'carrier which matchsplints, 4, are endwlsefinserted,

whereby a' freeflowing fire-resisting material,

"f l6 designates a bath of water'thrugh which pass, to a predetermined depth-the lowerten'ds ofl the' depending impregnated i splints during v'the' progress ofl the carrier. The water v`fis caused to Howtofand from thebatlr/an'd is malntalnedat ak certain level, the period of f travel ofthev splints therein being such as" to reduce the concentrated'impregnating matefrialtthe' proper conditionfas previously ffmentioned* i i 157e-designates a 'drying`" cham`ber` through V which progress the impregnated splintsl after theyxleave the water bath,passi`ng thence to '-'andlalong a bath 8 lof molten paramn-,or the llikegrin" which the lower `ends'fof`-1theA` dependff v,In the'urawiigs, s

ing Vsplints arel immersed to a dc'epthL correspending withi the desiredfiniiammable area of the splints.

9 designates a composition containingvatk equipped vwith a transfer rolllO by means# of which head composition is applied to the Vso lower paraffined ends of the depending splints during the travel of the carrier.'

' Instead of spraying the splints with the impre'gnating Solution, the splintszmay bei" 85 dipped in asu'itablebath `(50)` containing 1. A. process of making matches, compris- Ing impregnating a splint with a fire-resistingsolution, reducing, by a solvent, the con'- centration of 1 the solution in the free yend portion of the splint to a depth substantially corresponding with the desired inflammable area ol" the splint, then dryingthe splint,-

then treating the reduced impregnated porv tion* of the splint with wax,

waxed portion of the splint. I A 2. In a process of making matches, the

then 'applying head, composition to the free end of the steps of impregnating a splint with a fireresisting solution, and reducing, by a solvent, the concentration of the solution in the free end portion of the splint to a depth substantially corresponding with the desired inflammable area of the splint.

3. In a match machine, the combination with a. .carrier for match splints, of mea-ns for impregnating the splints with a fire-resistingsolution, andmeans for reducing, by a solvent, the concentration of the solution in the free ends of the splints to a depth substantially corresponding with the desired inflammable area of the splints,

4. In a match machine, the combi-nation with a carrier for match splints, of meansfor impregnatingthe splints with a lire-resisting solution, and means for reducing the concentration of thepsolution in thefree ends of the splints t0 a depth substantially corresponding with the desired inflammable area of the splints, said last named means including a bath of iiowing waterthrough which are caused to pass'the lower impregnated portions of the splints..

5. In a match machine, the combination with a carrier for match splints, of means for impregnating the splints with a fire-resisting solution, means for reducing, by a solvent,

the concentration of the solution in the free f ends of the splints to a depth substantially corresponding with the desired inflammable area of the splints, means for drying the impregnated splints, means for treating the reduced impregnated portions of the splints with wax, and means for applying head compositionto the free ends ofthe waxed por-V tions of the splints.

l Signed at New YorkV in the county and State of New York this 1st day of August,

A. D. 1929. Y v

WALTER O. 'AUGUSTINE 

